Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flote \Flote\, v. t.
   To fleet; to skim. [Obs.] --Tusser.

Flote \Flote\, n. [Cf. F. flot, L. fluctus; also cf. {Float},
   n.]
   A wave. [Obs.] ``The Mediterranean flote.'' --Shak.